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Posted on 12/15/25 at 11:48 am to Scruffy
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Make these companies build their own power plants and figure out how to cool them without excess water usage and Scruffy is all on board.
I agree with the power plant part completely.
As far as water, don’t allow them to pull ground water or lake/pond water. Force them to use river water from rivers like the Mississippi, Atchafalaya, Ohio, etc
These rivers have ample water that can be used for cooling very easily with very little by product or pollution.
Posted on 12/15/25 at 11:51 am to Mingo Was His NameO
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How so?
We're subsidizing the build out of the utilities necessary for these things to exist in the form of higher electricity costs
They should be incurring those costs, not the local residents.
Posted on 12/15/25 at 11:53 am to austin2015
This would be a non-issue if dumbass boomers weren't scared of nuclear.
Posted on 12/15/25 at 11:54 am to Powerman
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They should be incurring those costs, not the local residents.
Yep.
Most also are very stealthy about their ownership and operation. I get the sense these are being rubber stamped and not going through proper channels.
Posted on 12/15/25 at 11:55 am to austin2015
It can’t get much worse in 90% of the small communities in the south. Most are barely on life support
Posted on 12/15/25 at 11:56 am to Powerman
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We're subsidizing the build out of the utilities necessary for these things to exist in the form of higher electricity costs
Are you? I’m pretty sure meta is building their own sub station, and I thought there was some rumor they might even be purchasing Cleco or someone.
I don’t know, I’m asking
Posted on 12/15/25 at 11:58 am to Mingo Was His NameO
quote:I'm sure they're getting plenty of tax credits to do so if that's the case.
Are you? I’m pretty sure meta is building their own sub station, and I thought there was some rumor they might even be purchasing Cleco or someone.
I don’t know, I’m asking
Posted on 12/15/25 at 11:58 am to Harry Caray
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I'm sure they're getting plenty of tax credits to do so if that's the case.
Tax credits aren’t the same thing as the taxpayer paying for something
Posted on 12/15/25 at 12:05 pm to lsufan1971
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Google, AMazon and Microsoft are working with several energy companies to develop SMR's (Small Nuclear Reactors)
These will be revolutionary. We would have been balls to the wall on nuclear long ago.
I suspect a lot of speedbumps between now and when we all sit at home and collect UBI from these data centers.
Posted on 12/15/25 at 12:10 pm to Mingo Was His NameO
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Are you?
We all are
And I probably shouldn't have said local residents. You don't need to live near one to be paying higher electricity costs
Posted on 12/15/25 at 12:12 pm to Powerman
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We all are
I’m not sure you are, and it sounds like you don’t actually know either.
You claimed it and I’m trying to figure it out if it’s true or not, because it could be. But you aren’t providing any actually information
This post was edited on 12/15/25 at 12:13 pm
Posted on 12/15/25 at 12:15 pm to Ed Osteen
That is pretty much true of any industry.
The risk you take with handing out tax breaks without performance incentives.
The risk you take with handing out tax breaks without performance incentives.
Posted on 12/15/25 at 12:33 pm to BHM
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If for some reason they shut down the data center, at worse we will be left with practically free power plants that we can use to sell power to the grid.
But the liberal loonies want to spin that, stating we will be on the hook for power plants. Like they would just sit there idle.
“Practically free” to whom?
Posted on 12/15/25 at 12:35 pm to Mingo Was His NameO
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I’m not sure you are, and it sounds like you don’t actually know either.
I'm sure. I'm not really worried about what you know or don't know if we're being honest.
Posted on 12/15/25 at 12:37 pm to Powerman
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I'm sure. I'm not really worried about what you know or don't know if we're being honest
I was trying to learn something, but you clearly have nothing to teach and just talking out of your arse
Posted on 12/15/25 at 12:44 pm to austin2015
Yes. After initial construction jobs they create very little in local jobs. The biggest ones require 30-50 people on staff. Small ones less than 15.
They can use up a ton of electricity and water leading to much higher rates locally
There are a ton of noise and environmental concerns also
They can use up a ton of electricity and water leading to much higher rates locally
There are a ton of noise and environmental concerns also
Posted on 12/15/25 at 1:01 pm to Fencepimp
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Water does not reproduce itself.
Wut
There’s the exact same amount of water on earth today as there was millions of years ago. You can deplete the local source of water, but the water doesn’t go away.
These centers should have to do what many farms are having to do around here to protect the aquifer levels by building a tail water recovery reservoir that catches the used water. Instead of constantly pumping groundwater, you catch the excess water and store it and reuse the water and only pump groundwater when necessary
Posted on 12/15/25 at 1:09 pm to Scruffy
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Yes.
Their electricity and water consumption is insane.
Make these companies build their own power plants and figure out how to cool them without excess water usage and Scruffy is all on board.
Entergy is building a power plant next to the Meta datacenter in Richland Parish. The power plant will only be used to power the data center. With as high as the water table is in north Louisiana access to water will not be an issue.
Posted on 12/15/25 at 1:13 pm to austin2015
Yes
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